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Sequestration ended up being ruse by Obama

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Monday July 15, 2013 6:15 AM

The public is grateful that there are no two-hour waiting lines at
the airport checks and four-hour waiting lines at border crossings (“Sequester anticlimax,”Dispatcheditorial, July 6). But then, the public never believed this utter
nonsense put out by the White House about the sequestration.

This sequestration plan, introduced by the administration, that later denounced it, required a 2
percent reduction in federal expenses. In an emergency, even poor people can reduce expenditures by
2 percent, but Washington cannot.

Essentially, none of these ridiculous threats by the administration came true. Granted, the
administration successfully harassed the citizens by closing the White House tours, although
private sources offered to pay for them. It also successfully annoyed the public by canceling
Fourth of July fireworks at military bases, although private donors offered to pay for them. This
is how you alienate and punish the public if the administration is not getting its way to continue
wasteful spending.

It is reassuring, however, that very important programs have not been touched at all. There is
still a lot of public money available for President Barack Obama's $1 million golf outing to
Florida or his $80 million one-week boondoggle tour to Africa, where he pledged $7 billion of
taxpayers' money to various dubious programs.

That is $7 billion that we do not have. Before giving it away, it has to be borrowed first from
U.S. and foreign bond buyers, specifically the Chinese. Doesn't everybody love how Washington runs
this country?